Originally Posted by
SpazSinbad
30 knot tailwind (if straight down the jet pipe) seems to me to be outrageous - turn the bastard into the wind youse lazy sods:
The aircraft are usually parked on the ramp under sun shelters in individual bays; this seems to limit creative thinking. With such an automated start sequence the ability of the aircraft to set fire to itself does seem to be an oversight.
Back in the day of line ops on the GR1 with an inconvenient tailwind for start it was common practice to use a bin lid held near the jet pipe during the early part of the start....